Re: Could Evince be backported

Due to sandboxing, opening links of any kind from Evince tends to be
intermittent at best, I think because of something to do with .so loading,
iirc. (It regularly fails to open Firefox for me, with a weird error, which
I've searched in the past to find this info.) So unless there's a known fix
for this issue, it might just be the same one afflicting all links.
Annoying but I haven't found the time to try to fix it, and it's not a
codebase I'm familiar with.

Ryan

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 7:28 AM Henrik Ahlgren <[email protected]> wrote:

> Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > When you have a pdf document with an e-mail link, clicking on that
> > link should open the e-mail client with the e-mail address entered in
> > the to field.
> > At the moment I get:
> >     Unable to open external link
> >     The specified location is not supported
> >
> > It is not the pdf document, because when I open the pdf document in a
> > browser and click the mailto: link it works as expected.
>
> Your default email client in GNOME settings is Evolution?
>
> I get the following output from evince:
>
> (evolution-alarm-notify:215667): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 15:17:55.873: Your
> application did not unregister from D-Bus before destruction. Consider
> using g_application_run().
> bwrap: No permissions to create new namespace, likely because the kernel
> does not allow non-privileged user namespaces. See <
> https://deb.li/bubblewrap> or
> <file:///usr/share/doc/bubblewrap/README.Debian.gz>.
>
> The process "evolution mailto:[email protected]" is started,
> but the email compose window never appears on the screen and the
> evolution process is somehow stuck (needs -9 to be killed). If I run the
> same evolution command from the shell, it does the right thing.
>
> I agree that this should be reported as a bug in the stable version. But
> I would not be surprised if the problem is in Evolution instead of
> Evince. Perhaps you can test with some other email client. BTW, it does
> not seem to work any better from Evince 43.1 installed from flatpak.
>
>